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Richard Steele
British
Dramatist
About the author
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
Richard Steele,
British
Dramatist
#Woman
#Mind
A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.
Richard Steele,
British
Dramatist
#Man
#Woman
#Sense
#Sex
#Commerce
A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
Richard Steele,
British
Dramatist
#Husband
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Richard Steele,
British
Dramatist
#Destruction
#Fire
#Tongue
#Gossip
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
Richard Steele,
British
Dramatist
#Pleasure
#Praise
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
Richard Steele,
British
Dramatist
#Heart
#Man
#Old
Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
Richard Steele,
British
Dramatist
#Reading
#Mind
#Body
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Richard Steele,
British
Dramatist
#Nothing
#Beauty
#Wit
#Modesty
To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
Richard Steele,
British
Dramatist
#Solitude
The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
Richard Steele,
British
Dramatist
#Life
#State
#Hell
#Affection
#Heaven
It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
Richard Steele,
British
Dramatist
#Design
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.
Richard Steele,
British
Dramatist
#Act
#Care
#Pursuit
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
Richard Steele,
British
Dramatist
#Morality
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
Richard Steele,
British
Dramatist
#Character
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
Richard Steele,
British
Dramatist
#Pity
#Fool